Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:18:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: technics@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Winblows and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322201733.12360P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35106DCF.568A819B@home.com>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 technics@home.com wrote: > I have a Cable modem internet conenction, and have a few computers > theat I would like to hook up, although I only have one IP. I was > reading the section in the documentation about using a FreeBSD machine > as a gateway. Would this mean that I could use a phony set of IP's, > like the numbers that are unused, then run a firewall/proxy server on > the BSD gateway, and have the BSD box be the actual IP? If this is the > case, would > I be able to run say a quake server on the BSD machine and other > processes while using the other computers? Thanks for all info. I think so, yes. You can't reach any of the machines behind the alias from the outside world, but assuming your BSD box is the gateway you should be able to run any servers you like without difficutly, assuming your ISP isn't blocking it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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